Hendry's offseason moves so far

[Guest]

I'm just going to throw this in here:

 

Michael Wuertz: ERA+ 271, WHIP .72 so far this season.

 

that's on lou. wuertz was a pretty solid reliever and lou hated him. hendry basically had to give him away away because lou wasn't going to use him.

 

hendry hired lou, anything hendry does because lou makes him do it is still on hendry.

 

So you're basically saying that everything any manager does wrong shouldn't be blamed on the manager but instead the GM that hired him?

[cubsfan26]

I still think Dempster will be ok, even though his numbers aren't great. Sure he won't be anywere close to the starter he was last season but I don't think he will be anywere close to as bad as he was from 01-03 either. But I think 07-08 Ted Lilly type numbers is very possible out of Dempster. Tonight he pitched well until the 7th when Lou kept him in when he was over 110 pitches and in his last start he did really well. He also had a few starts when he had some bad luck. Like in the D-backs game when they got a few cheap off him him and the Cubs played bad defense and let three runs score in the first and then Marmol got bombed and let one of his runs score. That game could have easily been a quality start same goes for that Cardinals game when he got squeezed a bunch.

 

 

When you look at 08-09 Dempster after 7 starts he walked less guys and has striked out more then he did last year, and pitched the same amount of innings. Right now he has walked 19 and striked out 41. In 08 after 7 starts walked 23 guys and only striked out 36. The difference is Dempster has been much more hittable(teams only hitting 248 off him though). He has allowed 41 hits this season and has given up 6 HR's. A year ago at this time he only allowed 29 hits and gave up 3 HR's. So I think the increase in hits is partly due to some bad defense and bad luck. But the increase in HR's is a little upsetting and one of the main reason his era is at 4.98. Even though two of those came tonight when Dempster was out of gas. Overall though I'm not really worried about Dempster yet. The guy who pitched from 01-03 was just really inconsistent. When he was on he could have really good starts. But when he was bad he would give up 7-8 runs in 3-4 innings and get bombed. That was the reasons for the high ERA's and in none of Dempster starts this year did he really get bombed. Everyone of them just has been the same 2-4 runs in 6-7 innings and he's been lacking those 6-8 inning 0-1 run games he often had last year. Overall I think things will even out and he will end up with a high three or low 4 era.

 

 

As for the rest of Hendry offseason moves, I still think Bradley will be fine. Soriano was hitting 169 after 66 AB's a year ago and had a great season despite playing only 110 games. Bradley will get hot and still put up strong numbers. Kevin Gregg has been better lately and I still think he will get a good amount of saves and have a era in the mid 3s when it's all said and done. I also think Heilman will be alright in the long run, but he really needs to get his control back. I even think Miles will play much better at some point. Right now I really believe the worse move Hendry made in a long time was releasing Chad Gaudin for nothing. We could have really used him in long relief right now and Hendry was a idiot to dump him for nothing after a bad spring. Giving up on Vizcaino when he pitched well at the start of the season and for most of spring training was also a pretty stupid move. Eating 4m to watch Samardzija and Fox get bombed sounds like a great idea. So I was ok with most of Hendry offseason moves and I understood them more then most. But since spring training started Hendry has made a few really stupid decisions. Hopefully the Freel trade works out better then releasing Gaudin and Vizcaino has.